From: Ben Date: 2005-01-18T02:31:05+09:00 Subject: Re: need help with reading/writing to files File#truncate was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Also, thanks for the suggestion about the command line, I might try that as well, but I might be making the script a little more complicated so it might be a bit much for the command line. Thanks, both! I appreciate it. Ben